Eastern Oregon Bear said:
calbear93 said:
Eastern Oregon Bear said:
dimitrig said:
BearHunter said:
This statement doesn't mean Malcom X supported conservatives or conservatism so I am not really sure why you posted it.
It's telling that he keeps dredging up stuff 50+ and 100+ years ago to try and make a point about people today. Times change, culture changes and politics changes but he thinks he's scoring points with what happened in the distant past before most of us were born. Malcolm X died when I was 7. He wasn't much of an influence on my life. I never knew Malcolm I through Malcolm IX. Was there a Malcolm X!?
Yeah, it's the conservatives who bring up stuff from 50+ years ago as if nothing has changed.
Really?! Is that willful blindness?
I see several people who bring up the KKK and southern Democrats voting against the Civil Rights bills to smear Democrats. It happens almost daily. I don't see Democrats blasting the Republicans constantly for giving us the Great Depression in the 1930s. It's meaningless because parties have changed and what Democrats and Republicans stood for back then isn't what they stand for now.
And the country has changed even if what was promised as the solutions provided by the great white saviors have not eliminated racism. But you would never know that from the postings of some here and cheered on by others.
But I have yet to see you criticize those who bring up how horrible it was 50+ years ago as far as racial discrimination as if there has been no progress made.
If anything, the virtue signaling from white liberals is as toxic now as it was back then when Malcolm X made his points because when you look at how many of the white liberals actually live their lives, it does not reflect what they proclaim to believe, and they are far too accepting of "solutions" that have not done much to elevate much of the poor or the minorities as long as they look like they have virtue and have the means to escape to the suburbs away from the harms in the inner cities created by the liberal policies.
I am not saying conservatives are any better, but they are not false about their callousness. They don't care and neither do the liberals. If they did, I would see a lot more people actually volunteering at after school centers or mentoring programs, etc., things that actually make a difference, instead of yapping day and night here.